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August 1, 2013 In This Issue
Learn & Connect
CPHR
Member Matters
In the news...
Job Board
Western Compensation & Benefits Consultants
Pinnacle Staffing
Naylor, LLC
Learn & Connect
As an added benefit of membership, HRMAM offers the Professional Mentorship Program. The program will run from September to April. We currently have 18 Mentor/Protégé partnerships. We have room for three more protégés. If you are interested in joining the program as a protégé, please contact Lori Brûlé, Member Services Champion, at (204) 943-3624 or lbrule@hrmam.org.
 

Inspiring HR professionals to connect personally and professionally, this conference is combining effectiveness with imagination to create brilliant solutions that meet business needs.

 HRMAM is pleased to announce that this year's conference will feature four Keynote Speakers:

Dr. John Izzo I Bestselling Author I Business Visionary
The Leadership Disciplines of a Highly Engaged Workforce

Jeff Havens I Speaker. Trainer. Author
Become a More Annoying You!

Talent Anarchy I Joe Gerstandt and Jason Lauritsen
Social Gravity: Harnessing the Natural Laws of Relationships

Wendy Mesley I Award-Winning Broadcast Journalist
Truth or Consequences...Learning to trust in all the wrong places

Concurrent session information is now posted online here.

Registration is open! For more information or to register, please click here.

For more information on sponsorship and trade show opportunities, please click here. 

 

Date: Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Time: 830am-430pm
Location: Humphry Inn - 260 Main Street
Cost: $500 plus GST

 Click here for more info

 
CPHR

NKE Writers - June 2013

 Allaby, Laura Anderson, Jason  Bibeau, Amanda
 Bucklaschuk, Tara  Clark, Charlene  Cole, Sonia
 Dion, Tiffany Donkersley, Natasha  Gabriel, Jennifer
 Gatdula, Anna Luisa Gonzalez, Diana  Gratton, Christian
 Heppner, Carl Horton, Tyler  Jiggins, Julie***
 Keding, Sara Loureiro, Marie  Lutz, Amber
 Menec, Elise Michaluk, Amanda  Mistica, Ernest
 Pollon-MacLeod, Kate Shashikumar, Vrunda  Sidon, Natalya
 Unett, Lauren Yankoski, Melissa 


NPPA Writers - June 2013

 

Buckley, Jenna Chadee-Brooks, Jenny Trinidad, Melinda
Kilcup, Lindsey*** Stephen, Allison*** Zaballero, Joralyn
Davies, Richel Baete, Ruth Carstens, Nathalie
Chapil, Amber Young, Michelle McGregor, Amanda
Balacano, Macintosh Boyko, Jennifer Kostelnyk, Will
Silva, Candice Sisler, Rebecca

 

***Top scores

Experience Assessment

Struk-Savage, Anne Veness, Tricia
 

 

HRMAM offers the CHRP NKE Preparation Course in partnership with the BCHRMA.

This course is designed to help participants consolidate the knowledge they already have and - more importantly - identify where they need to focus additional studying in order to be successful in completing this multiple-choice assessment.

Date: September 7 & 8, 2013
Time: 8:00AM Registration
           8:30AM - 4:30PM Workshop
Registration Deadline: August 23, 2013

For more information or to register for this workshop, please click here. 

 

Date: Saturday, November 2, 2013
Time: 8:30AM - Check-in
           9:00AM - 12:00PM - Exam
Where: Building F
           Red River College
           2055 Notre Dame Avenue
Registration deadline: September 3, 2013

For more information or to register, please click here. 
 

 
Member Matters

HRMAM is looking for submissions for our newsletter. We're looking to make this newsletter more interactive and welcome submissions on the following:

  • Q&A - Best practices - Have an HR related question? We'd love to get it answered for you! Interested in answering questions? Just let us know and we'll add you to our panel.
  • HR Stories - Have a funny or interesting story you would like to share? Share it here!
  • Movers & Shakers - Recently changed positions? Earned an award or designation? Share it here!
Please send your submissions for consideration to hrmam@hrmam.org with the applicable title in the subject line.

 
 
   

Interested in seeing some photos from this year's golf tournament? Take a look here and here.

 

 

 
In the news...
When Tammy O'Rourke went away on spring vacation, she knew something was amiss at work, but she was completely unprepared for what she saw when she came back. Read more here.
 
When I was a job seeker, I dreaded interviews. I hated the trick questions, the brainteasers, and most of all, the questions I expected, but still couldn't quite figure out how to answer ("What's your biggest weakness?" was the death of me.) Read more here. 
 
An Alberta court has overruled the reinstatement of a Telus employee who was fired for calling in sick and then playing in a slo-pitch softball tournament. Read more here.
 
Gaenor Bagley is a rare species: a woman on the board of a multinational organization. Yet the head of people at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the professional services firm, is sometimes nagged by a feeling that she did something wrong for decades. "I had assumed that people would know what I wanted to do (in my career). But I needed to actually say it." Read more here. 
 
Job Board

POSITION TITLE COMPANY
Manager, Human Resources

Mount Carmel Clinic

Employee Relations Manager Government of Nunavut

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